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Subject: Re: smail pronounciation
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Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 12:23:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 24 12:23:53 1987
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In article <1277@beta.UUCP> hp@beta.UUCP (Akkana) writes:
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>When I was first learning Unix, I was trained to call '~' a "twiddle",
>but seemingly the rest of the world calls it "tilde". 

That's because it *is* a tilde!

>is '#' a number sign,

How about 'pound sign'?

>Come to think of it, I used to know someone who would run ay point out
>after a compilation, which I though was odd at the time since everybody
>else I know says ay dot out.

'point' would imply a numeric value, no?  'dot' is more appropriate for
alpha characters.

>Everybody I've met seems to pronounce the "G" in Gnu.  Is this just

A gnu is an actual animal.  The g in gnu is not pronounced, so why
should the G in Gnu be pronounced?

>though, is pronounced "pee-tee-roff", not "pee-trough".

That makes sense, since the origin of the word is the original 'roff'.
Keeping the integrity of the original word seems to be a good idea.
For instance, 'ruptime' is derived from 'uptime,' so the word *should*
be pronounced 'r-uptime.' (But since my name is Rupp, I break the rule
and pronounce is 'Rupptime.')

>I knew I had joined the ranks of REAL Lisp programmers when I found out
>that "cdr" was pronounced "could-er" instead of "cooder" the way the
>books said.  (But how do you pronounce cadddadr?)

I don't understand why a three letter command should not just be
pronounced as its spelled; i.e. 'cee dee are.'  

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